[tslug] Re: meeting time (fwd) Presnetation Ideas

2002-08-28 Thread brandon chisham
I wouldn't have any trouble moving it back, but I don't have a lot of other activities that would cause a conflict at other days/times anyway. Does anyone have ideas for topics or discussions? I've been doing a fair amount of working/reading about the following topics, and would be willing

[tslug] Geek Library Selection

2002-09-04 Thread Brandon Chisham
I found an online version of Linux Device Drivers from O'Reilly. One can either read it online by chapter or downloaded as a pdf compressed with RAR. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, so it is okay to share it, which I will be doing once I get the things

[tslug] Bochs

2002-09-11 Thread Brandon Chisham
Has anyone tried bochs? I found it this afternoon at http://bochs.sourceforge.net. It is licensed under the LGPL. I also saw something called plex86 at http://www.plex86.org. --Brandon

[tslug] FTP Weirdness

2002-09-12 Thread Brandon Chisham
I was planning on updating my website tonight, but I am encountering some interesting problems. I first connected with the ftp command, logged in successfully, but could not get a directory listing. Typing ls or dir results in the message 227 Entering Passive Mode (65,57,234,170,224,168).

[tslug] FTP Weirdness Extra info

2002-09-12 Thread Brandon Chisham
I just tried logging into another domain that I own jessica-chapman.com, and enountered the same difficulties. I can ftp to my truman webspace without any trouble. --B.C.

[tslug] Re: FTP Weirdness Extra info

2002-09-12 Thread Brandon Chisham
Thanks for the help. I think that I will get around the issue by having my host enable ssh access for my site so that I can scp the files to it. This is the first time that I've actually encountered this sort of problem, so I thought that I would see if anyone had had similar problems.

[tslug] Re: InstallFest~Linux installation help

2002-09-21 Thread Brandon Chisham
What kind of system are you planning on putting it on? What distro do you want? Desktops with Win 9x are pretty easy to install, but laptops with win 2k or XP are more difficult. If it is using NTFS, partition magic will be required to resize the windows partition. If there is a FAT 32 (Windows

[tslug] Re: browsing the lan

2002-10-03 Thread Brandon Chisham
You might want to check out xsmbrowser. I've used it pretty frequently. It a set of scripts that run on top of the command line tools and offers a graphical frontend. It is basically installed by unpacking the tar.gz file and then running the script by going to the directory where it is at

[tslug] Re: browsing the lan (fwd)

2002-10-03 Thread Brandon Chisham
You might want to check out xsmbrowser. I've used it pretty frequently. It a set of scripts that run on top of the command line tools and offers a graphical frontend. It is basically installed by unpacking the tar.gz file and then running the script by going to the directory where it is at

[tslug] Re: on campus email server

2002-10-03 Thread Brandon Chisham
I had a similiar experience last year, but it didn't work with any regularity. I'm using postfix and outgoing mail, as expected can be sent anywhere, but sometimes (and I haven't found any pattern to when it will work) I can, for example, send something to yahoo mail account and reply and

[tslug] Firewall Down?

2002-10-06 Thread Brandon Chisham
I was home this weekend and given Peter's message about recieving an incoming mail; I thought that I would see if I could connect to my box. I was able to connect to the webserver that I'm running, and to webmin (port 1). I also looked at my logs and saw some samba requests from well

[tslug] Free Books

2002-10-21 Thread Brandon Chisham
I found this article about free (as in speech) books that are becoming more wide spread. Many use the GNU Free Documentation License http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/sneaky.html --Brandon - To get off this list, send email

[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name

2004-09-02 Thread Brandon Chisham
I haven't posted in quite a while, but this looked interesting. I agree that it might also be a good time to address the Linux part of the name since you have to change it any way. I go to Iowa State now and the group here has decided to be called AmesFUG, with FUG standing for Free Unix Group.